Bad Eggs (Buffy episode)
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"Bad Eggs" is episode 12 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. See also List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes.
Plot synopsis
Summary
Buffy's Mom-sponsored shopping trip to the mall is interrupted by Lyle Gorch, one of two vampire brothers from the Wild Wild West. The next day in school, Xander and Cordelia continue to keep their relationship secret, and the class are given raw eggs to look after as an exercise in responsibility. The eggs are not chickenspawn, but contain mind-possessing facehugger creatures which are taking over the school. Xander avoids being taken, by the simple expedient of boiling his egg to make it easier to look after. Buffy stabs her facehugger with a pair of scissors. The rest of the gang are taken, and knock the two of them out. There is a giant Bezoar demon under the school, which is laying the eggs. Buffy and Xander fight their way into the chamber where the Bezoar lives, but the Gorch brothers arrive as well, and fight some of the possessed as well. Tector Gorch is eaten by the Bezoar, Buffy kills it and Lyle wisely bugs out.
Expanded overview
Buffy and her mother are at a mall discussing how inappropriate a dress is to wear. Mrs. Summers realizes the stores are closing and she still has some necessary shopping to do. She sends Buffy to go get a dress for her while she runs some errands. On her way to the store, Buffy sees a guy wearing a cowboy hat romancing a girl. As she's going down the escalator, she looks in the mirror to see this guy has no reflection. She follows him upstairs, scares the girl off, and fights with him for a while. He runs away and she heads to her mom. As Buffy has forgotten to get the dress, her mom gives her a lecture on responsibility.
The next day, Cordelia and Xander are making out in a closet and then Cordy starts up on how she doesn't want anyone to know about their relationship. They reach for the doorknob, but stop and go back to making out. They fall to the floor and Xander reaches up to turn the light off. Later that day, Xander, Cordelia and Willow in health class talk about sex. Xander and Cordy kinda begin to crack as they start to name off each other's faults as consequences to sex. Finally Willow mentions pregnancy and they get to pair off to take care of an egg. Willow is excited and plans to partner with Xander, but his mind is on Cordelia.
Xander and Cordelia enter the library with their eggs, Buffy is paranoid about the cowboys and then she finds she has to take care of an egg as a single mother! Giles finds the cowboys in a book and says that Buffy should go hunting but she may need some help. That night, Buffy and Angel are making-out in the cemetery instead of hunting. They pause for a second to do some hunting then go back to their kissing. The two cowboy brothers on the cemetery wall watching and talking about how Buffy wasn't doing much slaying with Angel... That night, while Buffy is sleeping, her egg breaks open and an arm of some sort comes out and attaches itself to Buffy's face.
The next morning when she wakes up, the egg is back to normal. Back at the library, Giles finds Buffy, Willow and Xander who have been excused from class because their teacher didn't show. Willow and Buffy are tired and sit down on the stairs. Xander offers to help Giles with some work. Xander begins to toss his egg up in the air, and worried looks come across Buffy and Willow's face. He hits the egg and it goes crashing to the ground, but doesn't break. He then reveals that he cooked it. Giles suggests that Buffy should go back to hunting with Angel since last night was a bust. Buffy and Angel are yet again kissing instead of hunting in the cemetery. They stop to talk and the subject of children comes into play. Angel reveals how he can't have children. Buffy is kinda shocked but that doesn't change how she feels for him.
That night, Buffy comes in and sees her egg is moving. She gets closer and the creature inside jumps out at her face. She pushes it onto the floor and it crawls under the bed. She looks, with an iron in her hand and sees nothing. It crawls on the floor some more. She grabs some scissors and stands waiting for it to show itself. It climbs the wall behind her and she kills it with the scissors. Buffy calls Willow to warn her but Willow's egg has already hatched. Buffy's mom then comes in and sees she is dressed. Buffy is grounded and sentenced to no after-school activities, and to only go to the library until her mother picks her up.
The next day at school, Willow tries to convince Buffy that her egg must have been a trap set by the cowboys. As they walk, the camera shows a view of Willow's back and the little creature attached to it. Xander, being hungry, decided to eat his egg. He cracks it and when he is about to eat it screams of fear when he sees the creature inside. In the science lab the gang debates over dissecting the creatures. Willow volunteers and moments later, Cordelia's egg wakes up from inside her backpack. She suddenly picks up a rod and hits Buffy across the face with it. Willow grabs a microscope and hits Xander. They are thrown into a closet. Then Willow and the others are seen grabbing hoes and pickaxes.
Mrs. Summers comes to school to find Buffy but is instead turned into a host by Giles who puts a creature on her back. The two head down to the basement where they begin their work for the mother Bazore. Buffy and Xander wake up and find two eggs by their side. Buffy smashes them and they head to the library in search of Giles. They find that Giles has been turned into one of these creatures. Just as they begin to find information, a boy (Jonathan) cries out in pain in the hall. They rush out only to find that he has been transformed. They follow and find everyone digging at and pulling eggs from the mother Bazore. Xander pretends to be a host while Buffy fends off the Gorches. She hits them several times and then is thrown into the working pit.
Xander follows Cordelia and another guy. As they walk down a tunnel, he smashes the guy's head into the wall. Cordelia stops to swing at him and he ducks. She then hits him right on his bump. He screams of pain and then hits her across the face. The cowboys follow Buffy into the basement area and attract attention to them. Willow gives orders to have them killed. Everyone attacks them and Buffy and the cowboy manage to fight them off. The second cowboy comes out and is drawn to the mother creature. She grabs him and sucks him in. The first cowboy blames Buffy for what happened to his brother and throws her to the ground. She is sucked into the mother but grabs a pickax on the way. She beats up the mother creature and then all the workers fall to the ground.
Buffy comes up and out of the creature covered in black goo. She scares off the vampire. The next scene shows all the students leaving. Giles explains that it was a gas leak. Xander talks to Willow and Cordelia about how they hit him. Buffy then comes over and talks to her mom. She gets into even more trouble. Now, she's not only grounded, but also confined to her room. Cut to Buffy and Angel kissing. It looks like they're outside but Buffy is really in her room. Angel is standing on the roof outside her window kissing her as the camera pans out.
Writing and acting
This episode was inspired by a dream Marti Noxon had involving children being given eggs that contained monsters.Obviously, a lesson learned should be "do not blindly follow your peers."
Production details
Music
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Overture The Magic Flute"
Quotes and trivia
Xander: "We'll have to teach our eggs Christian values." Willow: "But mine's Jewish!" Xander: "Then teach it that Dreidel song." The sex-education class is the first to show us that Willow is Jewish.
There are references to many movies in this episode, including Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, Children of the Corn, and The Wild Bunch.
Continuity
Arc significance
This episode introduces the Gorch brothers, Lyle and Tector, as minor villains. Tector is eaten, but Lyle returns in Season 3. Both characters draw their names, history and style from the film The Wild Bunch.Timing
- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
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